How much impact can we have on Climate Change

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. #1: implement a carbon tax

(because carbon rationing would never be accepted by rich countries like the USA - no US politician would accept a world in which Americans cannot produce more CO2 than Chinese - the USA will demand the right to pay for the pollution).

If the USA cut its per capita CO2 production to the Chinese (or EU - they're about the same) level, that would cut world emissions by about 8%. If China, and everyone else, also had the same carbon tax, then the countries which produce goods with the least CO2 emissions (eg those with large renewable energy resources, or efficient manufacturing processes) would get the growth in industry - not just China with its cheap labour.

And you should probably stop trying to bring India into this - the Indian emissions for the whole country are still under half of the American ones. Per capita, they're about one eighth of the American rate.